Author(s)

Constantin Măruțoiu¹, Ioan Bratu², Olivia Florena Nemeș¹, Dan Nemeș¹, Călin Neamțu³, Zaharie Moldovan², Teofil Tia¹, Ilina Udrea⁴, Cristian Tigae⁵

¹Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
²National Institute for R & D of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
³Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
⁴Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
⁵Department of Chemistry, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.

The investigation of the painting materials (pigments, binders and varnish) of Agarbiciu wooden church painted walls was done by employing both nondestructive (XRF and reflection FTIR spectroscopy for pigments) and destructive methods (FTIR spectroscopy and GC-MS spectrometry for pigments and binders). The digital restoration of the interior of the wooden church was done using the physical-chemical composition of the painting layer, a metadata set that describes the timeline, detailed photographic documentation and the 3D scanned interior of the church.

XRF Non-Destructive Analyses, Non-Destructive FTIR Reflectance Analysis, GC-MS Coupling, Digital Conservation

Măruțoiu, C. , Bratu, I. , Nemeș, O. , Nemeș, D. , Neamțu, C. , Moldovan, Z. , Tia, T. , Udrea, I. and Tigae, C. (2020) Scientific Investigation of the Paintings from the Agarbiciu (Cluj County) Wooden Church. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 8, 177-196. doi: 10.4236/jmmce.2020.84012.